free on ravelry

I have a number of saved searches on Ravelry, and I check back on them every few days. One of my favorites uses the following search parameters:

Craft: Knitting. (Sorry, other fiber folks! While I absolutely respect your crafts, and have even dabbled in them a time or two, I choose to focus on knitting.)

Has Photo: Yes. (Rather self-explanatory, no?)

Availability: Free and Ravelry Download. (Behold the power of the “add to library” button!)

Language: English or Japanese. (I’ve mostly learned to read Japanese charts, but will probably exclude them from the patterns I share.)

Rating: Unrated or 5 Stars.

Weight: Designed for any gauge, Lace, Light Fingering, Fingering, Sport, DK, or Worsted. (I would need a really really strong incentive to knit with something heavier than worsted, so that’s where I max out the search. In truth, I rarely get about fingering weight. I keep sport, dk, and worsted in the search mostly for the purpose of modifying patterns to use fingering.)

Sort: Hot right now. (I’ve found this is the best barometer to use to find the newly-free patterns that I really don’t want to miss. I originally had this search sorted by ‘Recently added to Ravelry,” but I found that this was turning up a lot of patterns that weren’t of particular interest to me.)

I certainly don’t “buy” every pattern that comes up in this search, but I definitely find some of them worth adding to my Ravelry library. I figured I would share the ones I find interesting with you all. (Because, you know, I might know one or two people who would find free knitting patterns interesting.)

I don’t have any process in place to go back and check if the patterns listed below are still free, and I make no promises on that subject. Please make sure that each linked pattern is still free (or, if not free, has changed to a price you are willing to pay) before ‘purchasing’ the pattern. (You’d still have to jump through the payment hoops before you actually were out money, but let’s err on the side of caution, shall we?) If you do stumble across a pattern I’ve linked to that is no longer free, please let me know, and I’ll be sure to update its status.